Golfer Robert Allenby fires caddie mid-round

Robert Allenby of Australia tees off on the 12th hole of the Northern Trust Open.(AP)

Robert Allenby is making a habit out of being in the media for the oddest of reasons.

Yesterday, at the RBC Canadian Open, Allenby got into a fight with his caddie, Mick Middlemo, and fired him mid-round. The pair reportedly got into a disagreement on which club to use on one of the holes, and while Middlemo got his way, the shot hit a gust of wind and sent the ball into the creek.

The rest of the story unfolded as told by Jason Logan of scoregolf.com:

"I said to him, 'You know this happens every week. This has happened for like the last three or four or five months. We keep making bad mistakes and you're not helping me in these circumstances,'" Allenby said after his round of 81. "And he just lost the plot at me. He just told me I could go eff myself. And I said, 'Look, you need to slow down. I mean just calm down.' And then he just got right in my face as if he wanted to just beat me up. I said, 'Stop being a such and such and calm down and get back into the game.' And he just got even closer and closer and I just said, 'That's it, you're sacked.' I said, 'I will never have you caddie ever again.' And we never spoke for the rest of the (first nine) and when we got to 18 we walked off and he said some smartass remark to me and I said, 'You don't deserve to be caddying out there.' And he just got right in my face and threatened me so I said, 'Go.' So he left."

The story gets even weirder when, seeing Allenby without a caddie, a fan named Tom Fraser offered to carry his bag for the remainder of his round, to which Allenby happily accepted.

"He did a great job," Allenby told Logan. "He did everything he was told. He was a nice guy. I'm really thankful that he helped me out. It was nice to have someone friendly on the bag who didn't want to threaten me."

If Allenby's name sounds familiar to you, it's because this isn't the first time he's been in the headlines for something other than his performance on the course - he claimed that he was robbed and kidnapped in Hawaii back in January, but the authenticity of that story has been brought into question by many.